Twin Cities Fund: Capital Grants: Bricks & Mortar

The Best Buy Foundation's Twin Cities Fund offers capital grants for nonprofit organizations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Focused on supporting youth programs, the fund aims to enhance tech skills, career training, and cultural vibrancy. Grants are available for projects that improve facilities and equipment, with a minimum request of $100,000, ensuring that organizations demonstrate community impact and financial readiness. This initiative seeks to uplift disinvested communities through technology and arts access.

Best Buy Foundation
The Best Buy Foundation™ conducts its work via a strategic grant portfolio, in partnership with nonprofit organizations across the country that share our focus on supporting young people in building brighter futures through tech access, career training and the cultivation of vibrant communities.
The Twin Cities Fund supports nonprofit youth programs in the seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area that provide teens from disinvested communities access to tech skills and career training. The fund also supports arts and culture organizations that contribute to the vibrancy of the Twin Cities area. Funding is available for both programming and capital grants. Requests are reviewed by focus area.
Funding is available in two areas of focus: Bricks & Mortar and Capacity. If your request falls under both areas, please select the category that most closely fits your request.
Bricks & Mortar grants supports organizations’ investment in buildings, facilities and equipment. Funding may support the total cost of acquisition, construction, repair, renovation, rehabilitation, creation or improvement of public spaces or other improvements to a facility for the purpose of Teens & Tech, Career Pathways or Arts & Culture programming.
As part of their Bricks & Mortar proposal, applicants may also request support for equipment, technology, software or hardware purchases. It is neither required nor expected that you purchase technology and equipment from Best Buy.

Eligibility

Organizations must meet the following criteria to be eligible for Bricks & Mortar support:Current nonprofit partner that has received funding from the Best Buy Foundation within the past three years and has not received capital fundingGrant requested is $100,000 or more. If request is under $100,000, please contact Best Buy Foundation staff regarding your capital request for alternative funding options.Organization must have already raised 50% of the capital campaign goal.Organization is based in and provides services in the Twin Cities 7-county metro.Project requested must solely serve communities in the Twin Cities 7-county metro.Qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit or tax-exempt public charity with a valid IRS Tax ID.Must be willing to participate in site visits by Best Buy Foundation staff and Best Buy Foundation Board members

Ineligibility

Ineligible ApplicantsOrganizations composed exclusively for re-granting.Applications requesting only supplies or product donations.Organizations seeking funds to benefit:Political, labor, fraternal or civic organizations.Religious organizations (for sectarian purposes).Individuals.Endowments.Award ceremonies, memorials, conferences or travel.Health, therapeutic or recreation programs, projects or activities.Athletic teams or events.The Best Buy Foundation will not fund endowments as part of a larger capital campaign.